Description

ABOUT THIS COURSE

We are excited to present this brand-new course, designed to help you deliver dynamic and innovative dance instruction that engages, motivates, and challenges BTEC Dance students. The course offers practical and strategic insights to enhance student attainment and achievement in the external Component 3.

In the morning session, you’ll explore the 2025 Set Task with hands-on, creative approaches that will inspire and energise your students. The afternoon will focus on planning, grading student work, and understanding key administrative responsibilities. The course is ideal for all Dance and PE teachers delivering the BTEC Dance qualification. The morning will be practical, so please come dressed appropriately and be ready to move!

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Learn how to approach practically the Set Task: Performing to a brief for 2025
• Develop creative teaching for learners and take away a tool kit of innovative ideas
• Find out how to effectively deliver Component 3 written tasks
• Have the confidence to plan your course with imagination
• Gain understanding of the expectations of learners and how to help aid their success
• Discover how you can deliver the course with insight from the dance specialist course leader

PROGRAMME

10.00am: Practical teaching approaches (Please bring suitable clothes)

• Discussion: Exploring the overview of the course, the units, their weighting and where the external component fits into the overall qualification.
• Warm-up and practical exploration of the stimulus and details of the brief
• How to encourage learners to prepare 7-15 minute pieces for success and what makes it vocational
• Ideas to take back to the classroom or dance studio to enhance student abilities and creativity

Break

11.15am

11.30am: Preparing for Performance

• Looking at the Set Task and creating movement material and tasks
• How to capture information in practical sessions for the three written parts
• Encouraging learners to create movement material for a target audience
• Preparing learners to perform their group pieces: methods and strategies that work

Lunch

12.30pm

Your Assessment Workshop

1.30pm: Ideas and strategies for successful planning and delivery for Task 1,2 and 4

• How to help learners generate their written responses for Tasks 1, 2 and 4 – explore how to achieve good responses from your learners
• Top tips for the component and the timetabling of the written tasks
• Creative ways forward for students and further lesson plans / teaching ideas
• Expected delivery and timings of the assessment window

Break

2.30pm

2.45pm: Grading Workshop

• Sharing approaches and innovative for ways to underpin knowledge prior to release of the external assessment brief
• Grading learners’ work together (written work and practical dance pieces)
• How to aid, encourage and push learners to achieve
• How this unit relates to Component 1 and 2 and other administration processes

Depart

3.30pm